THE grand 'vision for the future' has been a long time in the making - but when it finally surfaced, it was not the one that supporters - or indeed, almost everyone with even a passing interest in Scottish football - wanted.

Yesterday at Hampden the Scottish Football Association, Scottish Premier League and the Scottish Football League unveiled their plan for Scottish football, where one unified body would oversee three leagues of 12, 12 and 18 teams.

The plan features that most novel of ideas - a mid-term split - while the new leagues would be named the Premier Division, the Championship and the National League.

A number of other changes have been made, affecting the re-distribution of wealth and a pyramid system which would allow clubs to rise from the Junior and Highland leagues to Scotland's top flight.

However fans around the country have united in giving the new plan an emphatic thumbs down and are angered that their views, expressed in three separate consultations, have effectively been ignored.

Today, in a special Daily Record and Sunday Mail sports podcast, I am joined by the Record's chief football writer, Keith Jackson, Gordon Waddell of the Sunday Mail and Hugh Keevins to try and make sense of the new proposals.

You can hear it all in today's podcast by simply clicking on the player above.